Robert Okin

Chief of Service, Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital

Robert L. Okin, MD is chief of service of the San Francisco General Hospital department of psychiatry. He is an internationally renowned expert on human
rights for the mentally disabled. He is a member of the board of advisors of Mental
Disabilities Rights International and has led non-government
organization missions to the Ukraine, Hungary, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and most
recently Mexico to investigate human rights violations in the mental health
institutions in these countries.